“It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea..." Edgar Allan Poe

19 November 2012

DeVine House

Duncan & Coming St., Charleston, S.C.

I checked on the vine crop growing on the house at Duncan and Coming and things are slow this year. This house is normally completely covered by the greenery by this time of year. Hmmmm. Did we have an early drought? One year I took pictures almost every week to follow the vine as it took over the house.

I saw the Lincoln movie yesterday and loved every minute of it. Daniel Day Lewis is the most perfect Lincoln. Wow. Catch it if you can. It did motivate me to come home and do more research on Lincoln, the period and his family. I wondered if he had any descendants and was startled to find the only possible descendant had been born six years after his father had had a vasectomy. I guess that child can't boast that Lincoln was his great, great granddaddy.

From bird dogs to bad dogs, I believe this writer/doggie event requires a reservations:

Literary Dogs & Their South Carolina Writers: Charleston authors and their canines will be on hand to celebrate the
launch of Literary Dogs and Their South Carolina Writers at the
Charleston Library Society on Tuesday, Nov. 27, from 5-7 p.m. Mary
Alice Monroe, Josephine Humphreys, Marjory Wentworth, Nicole Seitz, Beth
Webb Hart and others will "meet and greet," present their dogs, and
provide a panel discussion about writers and their dogs before the book
signing and reception. Blue Bicycle Books and Hub City Press join the
Library Society as sponsors of this event.

In "Literary Dogs &
Their South Carolina Writers" twenty-five of the Palmetto State's most
beloved authors introduce you to their most memorable dogs. There is
Padgett Powell's "Ode to Spode," Josephine Humphreys' paean to a poodle,
and Roger Pinckney's Daufuskie Dog-ageddon. Meet Marshall Chapman's
Impy, Mindy Friddle's Otto, Beth Webb Hart's Bo Peep, and more. From
bird dogs to bad dogs, wild dogs to café dogs, get to know these canines
and their literary companions.